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...this. In addition, she ties the women's experiences to the nation's. Poltical caucuses, not the supermarket, become the meeting place for the women. When the Harvard women gather for coffee, they talk of Vietnam, not laundromats. Some of the characters, like Mira's friend Val, become deeply, almost obsessively involved with the peace movement. Mira becomes serious about attending the meetings only after she meets an attractive man at one.) In addition to the politicized sphere in which the women move is the underlying awareness of violence. Some blood spilled out of the peace movement itself, some flowed...
...Val stopped screaming and cleaned up the spilled sauce. Then she sat down and thought about Kent State. And motherhood. Shit and string beans for this...
...days later, Mira, Val and their friends marched to the Boston Common in a huge protest against the United States invasion of Cambodia. The group returned to Val's and turned on the news, awaiting some recap of the event. They were interrupted by a phone call from Val's daughter Chris, a freshman in college. She had been raped. Violence had come full circle since Mira's night in Kelly...
...rape destroyed Val. She placed little value on her daughter's chastity but a great deal on her safety, her integrity, her right to be a person--all of which the rape defied. In her political discussions Val had avoided saying "the system." But in the case of the rape there was no sidestepping the word. The system was men, and the system was guilty--cops, doctors, attorneys, as well as the black youth who pled guilty and the judge who sentenced him to six months for battery. Val recalled her liberal sympathy for the black boys in the line...
...first pilgrimage to Paris since the election of his secessionist Parti Québ&3233;cois a year ago, Québec's Premier Rene Lévesque was embraced last week with rare homage. President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing invested Lévesque, to his surprise, as a Grand Officer of the Legion of Honor and assured him of France's "understanding, confidence and support," whatever Québec's future course. At the National Assembly, Lévesque's arrival was via the Napoleon steps, an entrance last used by Louis...